CFP: American Poetry in the 1950s: At the Boundary of the Postmodern? (9/15/06; NEMLA, 3/1/07-3/4/07)

full name / name of organization:

Grieve-Carlson, Gary

contact email:

grieveca@lvc.edu

CFP: American Poetry in the 1950s: At the Boundary of the Postmodern?(9/15/06; NEMLA, 3/1/07-3/4/07)

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Call for papers for the Northeast Modern Language Association meeting inBaltimore, March 1-4, 2007

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American Poetry in the 1950s: At the Boundary of the Postmodern?

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In 1951 Charles Olson tells Robert Creeley that "we are now 'post' themodern," yet few would agree that American poetry was entirely ="postmodern"after 1951. The 1950s saw the later work of Frost, Stevens, Moore, andWilliams, the emergence of Lowell, Bishop, Wilbur, Roethke, and Rich, as =wellas the beginnings of such innovative "schools" as Black Mountain, Beat, =NewYork, Confessional, and Deep Image. Papers that explore the =interactions,rivalries, influences, claims, and counter-claims of the poetics of thatdecade will be considered.

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Accepted panelists must be or become members of NEMLA by November 2006 =inorder to present at the conference.